Pretty Swell Explode

Odd Nosdam | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Anticon
• ASIN: B0017IKQQW
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,058 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars psychoacoustic rhythm tracks and otherwise deft studio wizardry, August 12, 2008

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David M. Madden "nonnon/dj_webern" (salt lake, utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pretty Swell Explode (Audio CD)

Despite numerous petitions, no one has ever been able to properly explain to me what "backpacker" hip-hop means. However, the name cLOUDDEAD - or at least one of the band members - comes up whenever I hear a conversation about the genre. Judging from this collection of remixes and B-sides, featuring Black Moth Super Rainbow, Jessica Bailiff, Tarsier, Bracken of cD's beatmaker Odd Nosdam aka David Madson, I think I finally have it: you put your drugs in that backpack, and lots of them. Madson's music is the sound of drugs, glorious drugs that never turn wrong, allowing the listener to peer through another dimension; I'm not talking about chill-out sushi lounge grooves, but a Boards of Canada (coincidentally, Madson remixes BoC here) style, "I don't feel so hot, but if I just lie here nothing bad will happen" psychedelics created from overly compressed production, psychoacoustic rhythm tracks and otherwise deft studio wizardry.